Improved bottle-stopper



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.D

T. W. MIRIGK, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. l

IM PROVED BOTTLE`STOPPER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,079, dated July 3,1866.

To all whom it mag/ concern:

Be it known that I, T. WQMIRIGK, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in SecuringStopples in Bottles and I do hereby declare that the following, taken incon nection with the drawings which accompany and form part of thisspecification, is a description of my invention sufficient to enablethose skilled in the art to practice it.

My invention relates to the means shown and described for securing inbottles the stopples thereof, so as efectually to resist displacement byinternal pressure or by accident from without.

Figure l of the drawings shows, in elevation, the neck of a bottle andthe stopple thereof, with the parts by which it is held therein, andFig. 2 shows the same in plan.

The stopple a is preferably made of vulcanized rubber or other similarmaterial pierced with two holes passing' through the body of the stopplenearly horizontally7 and in that part thereof which comes above the neckof the bottle, these being seen in dotted lines in both figures, thepurpose of said holes being for the reception of the bent wire I), theseholes being made to best advantage'when the stopple is vulcanized.

A binding-wire, c, is secured around the neck of the bottle below theknob or projection thereon, and to this wire are secured, so as to turnthereupon, the hinge-wire d and the latch-wire e. The stopple is thussecured to the bottle, so that there is no danger of loss thereof, andin such a way that when the bottle is emptied it can assume the positionshown in Fig. 1 in red lines, where it and the bottle may be readilycleansed by washing preparatory to relling, the latch e also assumingthe position shown in red lines in the same ligure.

When the stopple is inserted it is forcibly compressed till the catch orlooped end of wire b is brought into such position that the latch e canbe slipped into place thereon, securely .retaining the stopple in theneck of the bottle against all internal pressure.

The wire bis spread inthe form of a staple, as seen in Fig. 2, each partpassing through and so as to prevent sidewise rocking of the stopple. y

It will be seen that in the described arrangement the holes through thestopple, by which the wires are secured thereunto, do not communicatewiththe interior of the bottle, and consequently afford no outlet forthe escape of the conned gas.

The attachments to the stopple are easily and cheaply made, and can beeasily repaired.

Iam aware of the various constructions of stopples and stopplefastenersshown in Euglish Patent No. 2,088 of 1856. My construction differs fromany one of ,these in that I use a conical plug or stopper with noshoulder to restupon the top of the bottle, employing, to secure suchstopper in place and prevent it from tipping, a wire having two parts,each passing through the stopple and at such distance apart as to keepthe stopper in place withoutthe necessity of the shoulders shown in suchpatent.

I claim- In combination with the frnsto-conical stop ple et, wire c,hinge d, and latch e, the wire c,"

when bent into two parts, each passing through the stopple, and thusserving both to hold the stopple down and to prevent any sidewisetipping movement.

T. W. MIRIOK.

Witnesses:

J. B. CROSBY, F. GoULn.

